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Offline motorollin

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Re: File storage server
« on: January 13, 2009, 08:54:09 AM »
Drobo

We had one of these for some time and it's absolutely brilliant. It warns you when the array is getting full. You just pull out a disk and it carries on working (but loses redundancy). Plug another drive in, and it rebuilds the redundancy with the new disk. All of this is on the fly. There's a video somewhere (maybe on that site I linked to above) which shows it doing all of this while playing a video from the drive. It never misses a frame while the disks are being swapped in and out.
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Re: File storage server
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2009, 05:37:47 PM »
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Trev wrote:
Drobo sounds very cool (and looks cool, too), but the drives are still part of an array

Yes, but the disks don't have to be matched. You can stick any size drive in there and it will work.

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and it has more overhead than RAID5....

In terms of the capacity required for redundancy?
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Re: File storage server
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2009, 04:17:27 PM »
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bloodline wrote:
I'm not sure how much longer I'll have any mobos with P-ATA interfaces on... I'll have to keep one around I guess... :-(

Use an Amiga! :-D
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Re: File storage server
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2009, 04:33:31 PM »
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:-D not sure how my little A1200 will cope with my assorted array of old HD's ranging from 30gig to 300gig... All soon to be formatted HFS+...

I will keep an old PATA->USB2 converter around should I need to recover any data stored on the drives...

Coward! :-P
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Re: File storage server
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2009, 04:44:46 PM »
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:lol: ok you tell me how to do it will with FFS, and...

Ok! PCMCIA 802.11B card, AmiTCP and SAMBA server. Surely it couldn't be *that* slow and unreliable? ;-)
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Re: File storage server
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2009, 05:15:37 PM »
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Well.. It's the only being able to use about 0.02% of the total drive space that would be the most concern :-)

Can OS4 use more? Come on, we can do this! :-D :lol:
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